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package javax.faces.context;

import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;

/**
 * see Javadoc of <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.2/docs/api/index.html">JSF Specification</a>
 *
 * @author Manfred Geiler (latest modification by $Author: skitching $)
 * @version $Revision: 676298 $ $Date: 2008-07-13 18:31:48 +0800 (星期日, 13 七月 2008) $
 */
public abstract class ResponseWriter
        extends Writer
{
    public abstract String getContentType();

    public abstract String getCharacterEncoding();

    public abstract void flush()
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void startDocument()
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void endDocument()
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void startElement(String name,
                                      UIComponent component)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void endElement(String name)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeAttribute(String name,
                                        Object value,
                                        String property)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeURIAttribute(String name,
                                           Object value,
                                           String property)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeComment(Object comment)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeText(Object text,
                                   String property)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract void writeText(char[] text,
                                   int off,
                                   int len)
            throws IOException;

    public abstract ResponseWriter cloneWithWriter(Writer writer);
    
    /**
     * @since 1.2
     */
    public void writeText(Object object, UIComponent component, String string) throws IOException
    {
        writeText(object, string);
    }
}
